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In article <jpe.723910551@ee.egr.duke.edu>, jpe@ee.egr.duke.edu (John P. Eisenmenger) writes:
- While we're on this subject of the MOTD notice.  Will that actually do
- the job? What if your have .hushlogin files so they don't see the motd
- messages when they login?  What if the account an unauthorized user has
- compromised has a .hushlogin?  Wouldn't this present the intruder with
- a legal loophole, or would s/he have given up their right to notification?
- If the former, should we start removing .hushlogin files from our users'
- home directories or what?

Probably not, as they would be "deemed to have had notice" - just as nobody
has yet gotten away from paying tax by claiming that they didn't know they
had to pay because the never read their (snail-) mail.

But maybe you display the notice BEFORE people log in, as we do here, viz:

====================================================
IRIX System V.3 (cscmgb)

Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine

          Centre for Computing Services

    This computer system is operated on behalf of
                 Imperial College

Only authorised users are entitled to connect and/or 
log in to this computing system. If you are not sure 
  whether you are authorized, then you are not and 
          should DISCONNECT IMMEDIATELY.

====================================================

It also comes out for ftp connects, and is meant to rob hackers of the
excuse that they saw a "welcome to the xxxx system" and therefore assumed 
they were authorised to use it.

I don't know if it has any chance to stand up in court, but knowing what
the lege system is like, I believe anything is possible ....

                            Thomas

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